Eastern NC style BBQ vs. Western (Lexington) style BBQ

Imagine the skill going into cooking barbecue chicken that is plain whole-hog pork meat with the least quantity of salty vinegar sauce coating to the meat.. just enough to moisten the barbecue chicken. It is rarely served sliced unless it is demanded so.

On the contrary, the Western NC style barbecue chicken is made from pork shoulders only and unlike the use of vinegar sauce, the Lexington style barbecue chicken uses ketchup sauce and sweetening agents. Meat and only meat is what you get when you are talking about Eastern NC style

BBQ whereas an  average or under cooked meat can get away with best of compliments with the taste tingling sauces that cover the meat. Both styles are different. What you eat depends on what you like!